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Sean_C_'s avatar
Sean_C_
Level 3
14 years ago

NetBackup 7 and PDDO

Hi guys,

 

Just looking for clarification that I have understood this correctly: 

I have a Netbackup 5000 appliance that I want to use as a disk pool in my current Netbackup 7 environment. I have read through the NBU PureDisk Deduplication Option Guide from which I gather I am going to have to go through the process of installing the PDDO plugin on a Netbackup media server to enable it to write Netbackup backups to the PureDisk storage pool.

Have I understood this correctly?

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  • AbdulRasheed's avatar
    AbdulRasheed
    14 years ago

    Hi Sean,

      The plugin for PDDO is bundled with NetBackup 7.x (7.0, 7.0.1 and 7.1). No installation step here.

      If you are using NetBackup 5000 appliance with NetBackup 6.5.x, then you do need to download and install the plugin.

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  • teiva-boy's avatar
    teiva-boy
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    Correct.  Puredisk agent will get installed, and detect that it's a media server and the PDDO checkbox will not be greyed out for you to be selected.

    And for anyone else to clarify..  When you buy the dedupe option licenses, it comes with all the Enterprise Disk licenses too...  So make sure you're not being told to buy both ;-)  

  • AbdulRasheed's avatar
    AbdulRasheed
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    Hi Sean,

      The plugin for PDDO is bundled with NetBackup 7.x (7.0, 7.0.1 and 7.1). No installation step here.

      If you are using NetBackup 5000 appliance with NetBackup 6.5.x, then you do need to download and install the plugin.

  • Sean_C_'s avatar
    Sean_C_
    Level 3
    14 years ago

    Thanks Abdul, I fired up the Netbackup 5000, completed the wizard to configure the SPA, and then ran the Storage Server Config wizard on the Media Server selecting the Puredisk options. The agent is indeed bundled with 7.1 and it was pretty straighforward.

    Only problem left is that I am getting a lot of error 40s when trying to backup to the storage unit I have created for this.

     

     

  • Fr_d_ric_RIGAL's avatar
    Fr_d_ric_RIGAL
    Level 5
    14 years ago

    Under which OS runs the NBU Media Server which manages the Appliance?

    Which type of Storage Server have you choosen when creating the Storage Server? the Disk Pool?

    You do not have to launch the Storage Server Config wizard  from the Media Server but from the Master Server himself

  • Sean_C_'s avatar
    Sean_C_
    Level 3
    14 years ago

    My master and all media servers are Windows 2003 SP2. I launched the "Configure Disk Storage Servers" Wizard from the master server selecting "PureDisk Deduplication Pool" as the disk storage type. For the storage server name I specified the PureDisk Appliance and selected the media server.

  • Stanleyj's avatar
    Stanleyj
    Level 6
    14 years ago
    I had a very similar issue with our 5200 appliance. I had to edit the host file on the appliance and the master server to include the master server and the appliances hostname and IP addresses.
  • sbrembati21's avatar
    sbrembati21
    Level 2
    14 years ago

    hi

    i have a netbackup 5000 appliance but my netbackuop 7.0.1 master/media server don't see the PureDisk on the appliance.

    I have read all documents in the CD but nothing.

    Where i can configure the PDDO in Netbackup 7.0.1?

     

    thanks

  • AbdulRasheed's avatar
    AbdulRasheed
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    Once the appliance is setup, run the disk pool configuration wizard on your master server. Choose the disk pool type as PureDisk Deduplication Pool and follow the prompts.

  • AbdulRasheed's avatar
    AbdulRasheed
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    It walks you through the process.

     

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/videos/netbackup-5000-series-deduplication-appliance-demo